Fair Game Movie
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TAGLINES
He's a cop on the edge. She's a woman with a dangerous secret. And now they're both...
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.
| William Baldwin | Det. Max Kirkpatrick |
| Cindy Crawford | Kathryn 'Kate' McQuean |
| Steven Berkoff | Colonel Ilya Kazak |
| Christopher McDonald | Lieutenant Meyerson |
| Miguel Sandoval | Emilio Juantorena |
| Johann Carlo | Jodi Kirkpatrick |
| Salma Hayek | Rita |
| John Bedford Lloyd | Det. Louis Aragon |
| Olek Krupa | Zhukov |
| Jenette Goldstein | Rosa |
| Marc Macaulay | Navigator |
| Sonny Carl Davis | Baker |
| Frank Medrano | Graybera |
| Don Yesso | Beanpole |
| Paul Dillon | Hacker |
| Andrew Sipes |
3.70 out of 10 (3557 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Game Over Before It Starts.
posted on 29 Apr 2009A civil law attorney (Cindy Crawford) is chased by a crazed group of KGB operatives (led by Steven Berkoff, trying to rekindle his 1980s days of horrifying bad dudes). Now it is up to lucky detective William Baldwin to protect Crawford and save the day. Laughably over-the-top action dud that does its best to cover up its silliness by focusing on attempting to make Crawford a movie star. Like the production itself, it fails in its attempt. More proof that you cannot take popular icons and turn them into legitimate performers with suspect direction and a lackluster script. Watch for then-unknown beauty Salma Hayek in a small role. Turkey (0 stars out of 5).
Do I look like a warehouse?
posted on 31 Mar 2009I distinctly remember seeing the poster for 'Fair Game' in a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station and thinking, yeah, right, it is fair game, all right. Fair Game for movie critics to rip super model Cindy Crawford to shreds when you know this movie is going to stink to high heaven. As one of the Russians says when the 'stupid American' uses her cell phone again, when she should have realized that Zhukov (Olek Krupa), the Russian hacker was using it to track her every move:
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Zhukov: I can't believe it. They used their cell phone. It's like painting a huge bull's-eye on your a..!
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I like Cindy Crawford, AND the beauty mark on her lip. She is one of the most beautiful women the world has ever known, and she comes off as a warm and friendly person; and for a super model, she seems very intelligent.
I saw her and Richard Gere once at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco where their friend, the Dalai Lama, and his posse of Tibetan monks was doing a sand painting. They were painting an elaborate mandala by poring different colored grains of sand into intricate patterns. Gere and Crawford parked their limo on the lawn, rushed in, fashionably late, in blue jeans. The Dalai Lama seemed very pleased that they made it -- better late than never -- and he ushered them in with a wave. Though it was packed the crowd parted like the red sea to make room for them to sit up front next to their good buddy, the Dalai Lama. It seemed a little bit like they were getting preferential treatment because they were celebrities. On the other hand, it also seemed like they were all really good friends. Prince even wrote a song about Cindy C. on his infamous bootlegged Black Album, so if she is good enough for Prince and the Dalai Lama, she is good enough for me.
BEYOND THIS POINT THERE BE SPOILERS (THOUGH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SPOIL FAIR GAME ANY MORE THAN IT HAS ALREADY BEEN SPOILED).
Cindy Crawford may have been Fair Game for the critics, but her acting wasn't that bad. Her worst act was accepting this script instead of holding out for something better. There is one scene where she plays the seductress to get a computer nerd named Adam (Scott Michael Campbell) to let her use the computer to get some files from her office. She winks at him to play along. She asks what he is doing, and he says he is fiddling with his joystick. She repeats it, making it sound like something very, very naughty. Trying to regain his composure, he steers the conversation back to potential sales:
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Adam: [nervous] Are you looking for hardware... or is it software you're interested in?
Kate: [sexy] Hardware. I was hoping to demo your unit.
Adam: I'd have to... boot up first.
Kate: [sexy] Well, why....don'cha?
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Adam's glasses literally steam up, and when he has helped her, she gives him a sexy kiss good-bye. This would be a cute scene -- if it was in an entirely different movie! As it is, the tone is very jarring, especially juxtaposed with a few scenes later when the Russians storm the computer store. Though they don't show it onscreen, Adam no doubt gets himself killed. I have a better idea: How about a movie where they stomp on kittens and puppies? Yummy.
William Baldwin is as bad if not worse than Cindy, but the main problem is not the acting, but the script. It is as stupid as a bag of hammers.
Cindy plays Kate McQuean, a lawyer in family law. She wears super short skirts to work, all the better to distract opposing counsel. When she tries to get a boat back from her client's husband in a divorce settlement, it sets off a chain reaction where the Russians (they are former KGB agents who are supposed to be, like, you know, the equivalent of the Navy Seals) try to kill her. It is ridiculous the lengths they go to. Over kill. Over-the-top kill.
William Baldwin plays Detective Max Kirkpatrick. You almost think they should have named him Killpatrick, and then they could have a character named Patrick, and Max could kill him. Ha ha ha. Salma Hayek plays his ex girlfriend Rita, who wants him to get his stuff out of her place:
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Max Kirkpatrick: Please, Rita. Just cut me a little slack on space, OK.
Rita: No, no, no! You have run out of slacks, Max! No more slacks for you!
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Then there is a shoot out in the police station when a suspect pulls the gun out of an armed bail bondsman's holster. This happens for no other reason than to spice up the break up scene.
The rest of the movie alternates between shoot outs, explosions, and car chases; and figuring out inane pretexts to get Cindy to take off her shirt or take a shower. Baldwin is an equal opportunity exhibitionist, so he takes plenty of showers, too. Something for the ladies. Date movie, anyone?
The stupidest part is where Max and Kate are being chased by the maniacal Russian killers and it gets on their nerves and they get in a fight. Kate jumps on a freight train, but Max chases the train, racing alongside it in his car, and then, after totaling his yellow muscle car, he leaps from his car into the train. Kate McQuean is still angry and slaps him, but then in the heat of the moment, they finally make love. Alas, just as they are getting to the good part the Russians climb down from their helicopters on ropes and board the train. Holy condom, Batman. Talk about coitus interruptus.
William and Cindy won several Razzie awards for this, for Worst Actor and Actress, and for Worst Couple. Cindy acted in only a few films after this, and the director, Andrew Sipes, was never heard from again. How do you spell Relief? Fair Game was Andrew Sipes' first and last film. Now I hear that someone may be making another film called Fair Game, but this one will be about the outing of intelligence agent Valerie Plame.
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Hog Truck Driver: Hello pigs!
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The Squid and the Whale (Special Edition) (2005) .... William Baldwin was Ivan
Frida (2002) .... Salma Hayek was Frida Kahlo
Mulholland Drive (2001) .... Dan Hedaya was Vincenzo Castigliane
Nixon (1999) .... Dan Hedaya was President Richard M. Nixon
54 (1998) .... Cindy Crawford was VIP Patron and Salma Hayek was Anita Randazzo
Nixon (1995) .... Dan Hedaya was Trini Cardoza
Sliver (Unrated Edition) (1993) .... William Baldwin was Zeke Hawkins
Thelma & Louise (1991) .... Christopher McDonald was Darryl
Under the Cherry Moon (1986) .... Steven Berkoff was Mr. Sharon
A Clockwork Orange (1971) .... Steven Berkoff was Det. Const. Tom
(No Kittens, Puppies, Pigs, or Gerbils were harmed during the making of this film review. All characters are fictional, and any resemblance to any person, living or dead, is strictly coincidental).
Brainless tosh, but quite good fun
posted on 12 Mar 2009Can Cindy Crawford act? Not really, but well enough to scream and run from one overblown action scene to another, taking the odd breather for showers (plural) and changes of clothes. I kind of enjoyed this brainless tosh. Cinders looks great, adequately playing an uncompromising, smarty-pants attorney. Baldwin is the cop determined to guard her body when people start trying to kill her. He just about pulls off the hardass cop routine, but never really musters the enthusiasm to look like he's enjoying it. The bad guys glower and plot, hunting the fleeing pair down with ruthless skill (and some rather suspect computer trickery), then cocking things up each time allowing them to escape. It's hugely violent, fast moving, loud, full of swearing etc., all the things you associate with nineties action fodder, and finishes off with a big enough bang. Don't expect much, and you shouldn't be disappointed.Oh, and if you're wondering about nudity, Cindy does indeed ‘get them out for the lads', and Baldwin shows his butt.
Are you Serious?
posted on 26 Jan 2009This was by far one of the worst films ever made. Money definitely should have been spent on some acting lessons. The plot was needing of well ANYTHING and there was no chemistry between the actors. There was a lot of things being blown up… unfortunately none of them was the film itself. Cindy Crawford is of course a beautiful center piece but her acting is so strained there is no emotional connection with her acting partners or with the audience. Baldwin also bombed in having any kind of real or believable connection with his scene partners. I actually walked out of this movie because it was so painful. Some really good films would be Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo in the "Thomas Crown Affair" or a more comical film like "True Lies"
it would be embarrassing to be killed by an amateur....
posted on 08 Aug 2008if a movie can kill two acting careers in one go, it demands to be seen and here it is. basically this is based on the same source material that was used for the Stallone vehicle Cobra, ten years prior to this.Crawford plays a lawyer, who the KGB want dead, because of something to do with a boat. when an attempt on her life goes awry (a cat does die though) William Baldwin, some dodgy camera effects, and good pyrotechnics come to her rescue. for the following hour we have very much of the same, including Steven Berkoffs amazing rendition of a Russian (as seen in Rambo II, and Octopussy), and Cindy Crawfords attempt at being an actress, which is probably worse to sit through than root canal surgery, seriously, she makes Paris Hilton look like Streep in 'house of wax', and is the main problem with this movie.from the upstart of the movie it looks pretty much on par with an episode of Baywatch, all silly soundtrack, slow motion running on the beach, and then the Silver Pictures Production part of the movie kicks in. one thing about the movie is the pyrotechnics, they are impressive and easily the best thing about the movie.Baldwin does not convince as an action lead, and is very painful to watch, especially some of his facial expressions through the movie. i have never seen someone mix 'panic' and 'constipation' so well in a movie. but at the end of the day it's just an action movie, with some good, if poorly edited set pieces , and it's over very quickly.
Yikes!
posted on 24 Jul 2008Oh dear, this movie was bad. The plot is laughable, the dialogue sucks, the acting sucks, and the director seems to think he's Ridley Scott. Who thought it would be a good idea to cast Cindy Crawford as a brilliant lawyer??? Cindy Crawford for crying out loud! She's believable as a lawyer the way Denise Richards was believable as a nuclear scientist in 'The World Is Not Enough'. William Baldwin is cast as the most stupid cop in the history of cinema. He causes the deaths of at least three innocent people because he led the bad guys right to them! Now keep in mind this is the guy we are supposed to be cheering for!I give this movie a 2 because the chase scene was almost decent. The rest is just pure Deep Hurting.
Fair Game is a 'fair' movie
posted on 22 May 2008Fair Game has been justly maligned for its bad plot arcs and often absurd dialogue, especially from the head Russian mobster, but the movie also has some positive attributes. It has nicely choreographed stunts and Billy Baldwin and the gorgeous Cindy Crawford make for a good hero and damsel in distress, respectively. It would be interesting to see what they could do with a better screenplay. All in all, this movie is passable for an hour and half of entertainment, 5.5/10.
One of the worst movies of the 90's!
posted on 07 Apr 2008This would have been one of the best comedies of 1995. Except for the fact that I don't think it was supposed to be a comedy. I think the reason Cindy Crawford was cast in this movie was because the producers were hoping that the audience would be so busy admiring her beauty that they wouldn't notice how bad the movie was.It's hard to find anything good to say about this movie. Thin plot, hyperactive editing, dumb dialogue, and lots of pointless violence. Not to mention atrocious acting, especially from Crawford. I think it's safe to say that she instantly killed her acting career with this movie. There were moments where I was laughing at the unintentional humor, but mostly I sat there with my jaw on the floor amazed at how awful this movie was.Cindy Crawford looks hot, but that's the only positive thing I can say about this film. If you ever find yourself having to choose between renting this movie and burning three bucks, I'd advise you to get the Bic lighter out.
Cheesy but....
posted on 19 Nov 2007The acting is mechanical, and the plot was written by space aliens. Incredibly, there are some good points to the movie. The graphic violence alone is worth the money. There is also the mandatory love scene. It is basically an R-rated kid movie, because as far as the plot is concerned, it assumes the viewer is a brain-dead zombie who only responds to images of Cindy Crawford. Yes, that would be me. If you are a fan of hers, you just can't miss this brainless piece of.. entertainment. Seriously, it IS fun, but don't expect it to be a deep film. It is one of the shallowest movies ever made. And if those are KGB agents, then I am Michael Jackson.
Bad movie we love
posted on 22 Oct 2007'Fair Game' belongs to the area of bad movies we love.The action-pope Joel Silver just wanted to introduct top model Cindy Crawford to the mainstream business. It didn't work as we know it.But Cindy's not so bad. Nor Billy Baldwin.'Fair Game' is a brainless action-thriller a la 'Terminator'. And sometimes is bad enough to be good.
Foolish,laughable Hollywood actioner
posted on 19 Oct 2007Supermodel Cindy Crawford launches her star movie career,and promptly crashes it in FAIR GAME.The premise to begin with is heavily far-fetched as we're supposed to accept La Crawford as a high-flying lawyer in trouble with ex-KGB baddies intending to exterminate her at all cost over some nonsense concerning a boat belonging to an associate,while would-be macho cop Billy Baldwin is on hand to protect our Cindy when the ensuing mayhem starts.And what mayhem! The above is the basic plot line,thin even for a routine one-hour TV episode.Perhaps unconsciously realising this,the film's makers decide to pad it out with as much absurd,ludicrous and hilariously over-the-top action as possible,with barely the slightest concern for intelligence,wit,or logical plot development.Crawford herself looks predictably lovely in various states of skimpy dress or undress,but this is the only positive aspect of her performance;when it comes to delivering the admittedly hackneyed dialogue,she struggles terribly and embarrasses herself,as mostly does her leading man Baldwin.Steven Berkoff is mildly enjoyable in yet another variation on his innumerable mad Soviet-style villains,but his hammy,bellowing visage becomes tiresome.The film's only assured performance comes in a cameo from Salma Hayek,as a former beau of Baldwin's.Ms Hayek would've been a better choice than Crawford as the leading lady;she is criminally wasted in this tiny role.Cindy C as a lawyer broke credulity barely as the film started;if anything,it goes even more downhill from there as Berkoff and Co.(thanks to sophisticated computer tracking devices) are remarkably clever at tracking the exact point and time wherever Cindy and Billy happen to be,but despite the couple being armed with little more than a token gun and their fists (though in Cindy's case,her breasts,which are teasingly present underneath tight-fitting t-shirts),they are hopelessly inept at bumping off their prey,despite seemingly having the equivalent of the entire world's military hardware to hurl at them! Aside from the odd scratch here and there and mussed-up hair,the hero and heroine amazingly survive their ordeal unscathed.With such dumbness present,FAIR GAME could've been enjoyed as a no-brain action thriller had there been any sort of chemistry with the two leads and better dialogue.Since it fails dismally on most of these and other points,it is barely watchable,and Cindy Crawford has not starred in any film since.She has however,performed adequately in supporting roles (her appearance on US sitcom THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN received unexpected praise in some quarters) in other films and TV programmes.Cindy Crawford is a great supermodel,an acceptable small-part actress,but not a leading actress.Perhaps even Cindy realises that now.Rating:2 and a half out of 10.
IT SHOULD BE GIVEN FREE !
posted on 20 May 2007This movie is so bad that it should not be sold, but given for free! Poor Crawford ("poor" is just a metaphora here..) tried her best to convince as an actress, but the result was so disppointing that herself quit her tries to make new movies. Baldwin tried all he could to give some credibility to the screenplay, but without succcess.
C'mon guys it isn't that bad
posted on 11 Apr 2007Ok granted, the acting isn't totally top notch like in other action flicks. But it's good enough to make the movie worth watching. Considering that she pretty much had absolutely NO previous acting experience, I thought Cindy Crawford's first effort was excellent. She's believable enough, mostly so in the scenes where her character is completely terrified. William Baldwin makes a great hero...he's sooo hot. The action/suspense scenes all throughout the film are fastmoving and edge-of-your-seat; they'll take you on a joyride and leave you with an adrenaline rush, guaranteed. Give 'Fair Game' a chance everyone, it's a fun flick.
Ladies and Gentlemen: Finally, the film that will set back gender relations and the Womens' Movement 1,000 years!!!!
posted on 08 Nov 2006This is the most contrived piece of troglodyte cinema I have ever witnessed! Here we have the typical cop film setup with the cardboard cut-out "tall, dark, and handsome" police hunk, but Oh! What's this? They threw a hot, gorgeous woman in as the co-star? Well, here's ONE heterosexual male that (even though I really like Cindy Crawford, wink wink) won't be bought over that easily! This is the worst film in the history of man! It makes women look like shrewish, fickle, mindless sex objects who will beat up on a man angrily one minute, and jump on him, writhing and naked the next! Cindy Crawford is NOT helping herself or her gender's liberation movement one bit by starring in this ridiculous piece of celluloid flotsom. The dialogue is Kindergarten at best, the insufferable stereotyping deserves a swift kick in the groin by a REAL writer of poignant, socially-relevant material, like Rod Serling, Ernest Hemingway, Edward Bellamy, or Upton Sinclair, and the sexual innuendo is poured on thicker than gravy on a country-style steak! Even worse than Cindy's character is Billy's, a shallow, brutish, pugnacious chowder head whose egocentricity and libido never rest. He acts like a tough tiger with the "Red menace", but melts into a submissive, wimpy doormat when a beautiful woman propositions him. In short, a real stinker. Thank you for your time. I think the rant has passed...
I'm only working from Ken Begg's review at www.Jabootu.com
posted on 15 Oct 2006A lot of critics panned this film. Nobody mentions that, if the film is as lousy as many people claim, it ruined a fine book with a charming heroine. I advise everybody who hated the film to read the book, Paula Gosling's "Fair Game," published in England as "A Running Duck." I assure you, none of the things you complained about as being stupid appear in the book. No bomb is placed in the heroine's television set; its placed in her refrigerator. When the bomb goes off, she isn't blown off her balcony and into the water without suffering a scratch; her fiancé opens the icebox; he is killed and she is badly injured. The heroine and the police do not arrive at the safe house (which isn't a hotel) in police cars with sirens screaming; they arrive on foot, dressed as nuns. If you wrote a negative user comment on this film, I urge you to read the book. You will, I assure you, want to amend your review to add that it ruins the book.
A most dangerous game (To watch)
posted on 15 Sep 2006William Baldwin stars as a cop who protects a high powered attorney (Cindy Crawford in her career stopping performance!) from a group of terrorists who for some reason are looking to do our bubbleheaded attorney in. Believe it or not, Fair Game is actually an adaptation on a novel that inspired the underrated Cobra that was fascinating in it's right wing tendencies. Cobra had it's detractors and I think it rates at like 4.3 out of 10 so that goes to show you how B.movies tend to do in the IMDb polls. (Yet strangely, newer action movies pull of 5.5 ratings and anyone who thinks today's actioners are better than the 80's ones, are people I have no interest in knowing. This is a different rant for a different time.) Anyway Fair Game is quite possibly the Alone In The Dark of the 1990's. A laughable bomb which has Billy Baldwin (They could have at least given us Daniel!) at one point sighted with a rifle laser beam on his ass crack. Not since the The Punisher have we been treated to such gratuitous hairy man's ass and at least Dolph Lundgren had the decency to never show his ass again in a different movie. Fair Game plays less like an action flick and more like an ego trip for Cindy Crawford and Billy Baldwin. I was afraid that this wouldn't be as ridiculous as Cobra. I also feared that it would be bald on political statements. I was however wrong. Fair Game is equally as ridiculous as Cobra and it also has a political message. One that includes the idea that Crawford could actually make it into law school and second that it is important for sexy attorneys to take showers at regular intervals. Yes indeed. The reason Fair Game is so bad is it because it represents what is wrong with action movies as it comes from the "Bigger is better" school and although the explosions and action stock come from the assembly line, I think it is more important that we acknowledge that at one time there was a movie that said, not only can Cindy Crawford act but she can also play an intellectual who is a damn good lawyer too! I would say that Cindy Crawford is the worst actress to ever come from the modeling field but I can't because she is a notch above Anna Nicole Smith and one below Bo Derek. As for me I was laughing through out. Although I kind of feel sorry for the author, I never read the novel but i'm guessing this abortion of a movie won't be getting people out there to read the book. And they wonder why today's youth doesn't read anymore! 1/2* Out of 4-(Awful)Note:Someone pointed out that indeed it was a woman not a man who wrote the novel.
AWFUL!!!!
posted on 11 Aug 2006I was extremely bored one day and happened to find this DVD lying around. From the opening scene, (was that a bullet, piece of glass, firecracker? she should have just been mugged or something. some better excuse to get her to the police station) I knew I was going to have to endure some low-class acting and that was exactly what it turned out to be. Crawford could have been more believable as a porn star than as a lawyer in the movie. She overacted...or is underacted...and leaves me wondering how on earth this movie went through all the stages that a movie has to go through before it is finally released. The original plot was ok except a bit weak. the fact that the lawyer wanted a boat to go to a client did not warrant the massive manhunt that followed leading to the death of several cops, only to capture her, bore the audience with their explanations and keep her alive long enough for her cop-friend to rescue her.
The sex scene was so ill timed, or am I naive to think that just a minute after surviving shoot-outs, major car crashes and explosions, jumping onto a moving train, jumping off a car that explodes seconds after, someone can immediately be that turned on and have sex?? Baldwin was not too bad except I expected more remorse and grief from a man who had just lost a couple of workmates, a best friend and a cousin in a matter of hours but still managed to crack jokes and be extremely horny.
The star of the movie was Selma Hayek whom we get to see in 2 scenes. Only problem is we don't know why the hell she is so upset with her boyyfriend??????????????
Don't waste your time and money on this one folks! PLEASE!!!!
Worst Movie Ever...
posted on 25 Jul 2009... in the beloved words of Comic Book Guy from "The Simpsons."I don't know what we were smoking when my wife and I went to the theater to see this movie when it was initially released. The fact that it starred a Baldwin should have tipped me off. There are so many plot holes in this sorry excuse for a movie that there is nothing left to tear apart. Cindy Crawford needs to stick to modeling as her acting inabilities were all too clear on the big screen.